Update frontend to 1.16 (Install templates as pip package) (#7623)

* install templates as pip package

* Update requirements.txt

* bump templates version to include hidream

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Co-authored-by: Chenlei Hu <hcl@comfy.org>

app/frontend_management.py

@@ -184,6 +184,27 @@ comfyui-frontend-package is not installed.
             )
             sys.exit(-1)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def templates_path(cls) -> str:
+        try:
+            import comfyui_workflow_templates
+
+            return str(
+                importlib.resources.files(comfyui_workflow_templates) / "templates"
+            )
+        except ImportError:
+            logging.error(
+                f"""
+********** ERROR ***********
+
+comfyui-workflow-templates is not installed.
+
+{frontend_install_warning_message()}
+
+********** ERROR ***********
+""".strip()
+            )
+
     @classmethod
     def parse_version_string(cls, value: str) -> tuple[str, str, str]:
         """

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-comfyui-frontend-package==1.15.13
+comfyui-frontend-package==1.16.8
+comfyui-workflow-templates==0.1.1
 torch
 torchsde
 torchvision

server.py

@@ -736,6 +736,12 @@ class PromptServer():
         for name, dir in nodes.EXTENSION_WEB_DIRS.items():
             self.app.add_routes([web.static('/extensions/' + name, dir)])
 
+        workflow_templates_path = FrontendManager.templates_path()
+        if workflow_templates_path:
+            self.app.add_routes([
+                web.static('/templates', workflow_templates_path)
+            ])
+
         self.app.add_routes([
             web.static('/', self.web_root),
         ])